OT: Knoppix on a usb hard drive (dual purpose)

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 02:08 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I'm in search of advice on hwo to realise my wishes.
> 
> I would like to setup a 40 GB external usb hard drive so that if plugged 
> in normally, a FAT32 partion can been seen in any OS, which would have 
> my multimedia and data.
> 
> But I would also like that if I'm in a pinch, I can connect the drive 
> preboot, and with the BIOS's permission, boot to the ext. drive,  and 
> have a knoppix install bootup, autodetect the hardware as necessary, and 
> allow me to access my data.
> 
> I'd also like to keep the a home dir on the knoppix install synced with 
> my currect home dir in FC4. Possibly even have the KDE's look the same etc.

Should be possible if you just treat the USB drive as a regular disk,
i.e. make partitions on it, one a bootable Linux partition for Knoppix
and a FAT32 partition for data sharing.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>